To Sleep, Perchance To Blog
Christmas has come and gone once more, and as is tradition, the day was spent with a great deal of swag, family and food. And relaxing. Lots of relaxing. Well...Gary, Mel & I relaxed. Shady just dragged herself over to a pillow and didn't move very much afterwards; I think she ate as much turkey as any one of us did at dinner.
Which brings us to...Boxing Day! (Which has now been cunningly dragged out into Boxing Week, because one can never have too many hands milking the cash cow.) It seems rather fitting that our shifts at the mall both started and ended with a Silent Hill level fog swallowing up the entire mall and surrounding area.
On the whole, Boxing Day was exactly as I predicted: slow. You see, it's one of the few times I can truly appreciate working at a store like ours (and by default, the kiosk too, since it saw even less traffic than we did). Primed with Christmas candies and loaded with money, people tend to blow all their cash on the following three things.
1) clothes
2) videos and games
c) electronics
As our store sells none of those things, at most we get curious onlookers and ladies who want a purse. (Though maybe next year we'll actually get the bras to go with those mislabeled boxes...) All in all, it was still an enjoyable time despite...um, everything else? With the worst of the season gone and done, all that's left is to coast through the remainder of the week & weekend, and then toast this bitch off in the new year.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have Hannibal Lector to read....
Labels: the rise and fall of Commercialmas (but no spiders from Mars), turkey
posted by Phillip at 9:35 PM
